THE SCARABABEUSDREAM – Sample Your Heartbeat To Stay Alive

This Austrian duo, relying solely on keys and drums, have created something wonderful and essential. Best and easiest described as techno, post emo/rock metalcore (you try narrowing it down), it’s fresh. Where post-rock has lost its way, this has picked up some of its ethics and added violence to its sense of heightened tension. But it still has heart.
The sound, granted also some nice production, is orcastraic and chaotic. ‘Strollerstore’ is a brutal mix of Aphex Twin and Idiot Pilot and for all its fraught loose ends simply shouldn’t work, but it’s the layered diversity and conflict that makes it all the more powerful.
The diversity in their diversity it also well thought out. The slow burn ‘Nimesis Out Of Senses’ with fraught, soft vocals plays beautifully before bursting into life.
I’m not saying this is for all, I fear it’ll be love, hate and just purely have no idea what’s going on. But in terms of breaking musical genre and commercial law, this is a great example. Confident, intelligent and thoroughly fulfilling.